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David Klamann: Conservatives waste taxpayer money

Posted:
07/07/2016 03:50:04 PM MDT

Updated:
07/07/2016 03:50:26 PM MDT

CNN reported that during the last five years of the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT), a program that was use to harass and kick out hard working, patriotic individuals who had signed up to defend our country simply because of their sexual identity, the government spent $193 million of taxpayer money. And all we got from the DADT policy was a sharply degraded military. Yet conservatives in Congress pushed hard to keep DADT. Five of the recent Republican candidates indicated that they wanted to bring DADT back.

More recently, conservatives unhappy with the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage have been spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars making themselves look like the local arm of ISIS. Republicans in Congress managed to fritter away a mere $3 million defending indefensible laws like the ridiculously named Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA.

The truth is that nobody wastes as much taxpayer money as a conservative; from the Benghazi hearings to mishandled wars for oil to trying to control people's personal lives, conservatives waste taxpayer money, and they waste massive amounts of it.

Now, along comes conservative Bob Greenlee trying to get away with claiming he's against wasting taxpayer money by attacking the less than $100,000 spent on an independent analysis on how to make Boulder a bit more welcoming.

Come on liberals, tell Bob Greenlee that people who live in glass castles shouldn't throw stones.

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